PEOPLE across Scotland are noticing gaps in the fruit and vegetable displays at supermarkets and a decline in quality with some items past their best by the time they arrive. Pre-Brexit, fruit and veg were in the shops within five days of being harvested in Spain, France or Italy. Now the process takes up to two weeks, explained greengrocer James Welby of Tattie Shaw’s on Edinburgh’s Leith Walk. He said: “Excuse my French – but it is a shitshow. It is probably a combination of Brexit and Covid but the produce is taking much longer to get here than it used to and it often isn’t class one when it arrives. Everything has a cost – even delay. The produce is more expensive – on average around 10% more I would say, but it varies.
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WHERE Scotland was once the fiefdom of the Labour Party and where it used to be said that if it put a donkey up as a candidate it would be elected overwhelmingly, now the party is clinging on by its fingertips in Holyrood, having slipped into third place behind the Tories. Its solitary Westminster MP makes it look like the Scottish representation in Westminster could soon be an extinct species and, without Scotland in its grasp, the party has little hope of regaining power in Westminster. The last two leaders of Scottish Labour in Holyrood have lacked a presence and cutting edge, without which no impression has been made on the Scottish electorate or in the Holyrood chamber.
THE first photograph in this week s trip down West Fife s Memory Lane is of Dunfermline Children s Gala in 1966 and was sent in by reader Alistair McBay, who writes: The boys on banner duty are, from the left, Ian Mason (who I believe became a GP in the town), Alastair Williamson, Derek Brown and myself. The man on the extreme right in hat and glasses was the headmaster, Mr Muir. The second photograph shows children outside McLean School. A series of Old Dunfermline DVDs featuring old images and archive footage is available at olddunfermline.com/shop.